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North Korea, in spite of the diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions, has repeatedly defied the international community on...
December 01, 2016 by
In their 1972 book, Scalapino and Lee Chong-sik called North Korean cultural space a “desert of unalleviated mediocrity and...
November 10, 2016 by Tatiana Gabroussenko
Chinese officials, in both Washington and Beijing, tend to shake their heads in feigned disbelief and cite the Mandarin...
November 02, 2016 by Dennis P. Halpin
The North Korean Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Hyon Hak Bong, is still in London, sources familiar with DPRK foreign...
October 13, 2016 by Dagyum Ji
North Korea’s Haedanghwa Service Complex has been renamed the Ryugyong Service Complex, a picture obtained by NK News...
October 10, 2016 by Dagyum Ji
As some of our readers are aware, the sleepy field of North Korean studies is now engulfed in a major controversy which, as...
October 05, 2016 by Andrei Lankov
Satirical comedy shows are airing on North Korea's national television channel, one of which features a satire on the U.S....
September 14, 2016 by JH Ahn
North Korea is widely known to have been, until at least very recently, the world’s last bastion of Stalinism. And while...
September 07, 2016 by Peter Ward
South Korea on Wednesday said North Korea purged a vice-premier responsible for education and was in the process of...
August 30, 2016 by Dagyum Ji
After months of silence and inactivity at a new joint China-North Korea trade zone in Dandong, the project has suddenly...
July 11, 2016 by Clive Parker
The May 27 Washington Post article entitled “The secret life of Kim Jong Un’s aunt, who has lived in the U.S. since...
June 20, 2016 by Dennis P. Halpin
Editor's note: This column was erroneously published last Friday before Toshimitsu Shigemura was given an opportunity to...
June 16, 2016 by Fyodor Tertitskiy
In the history of North Korean cinema, there is one film whose effect on the audience far surpassed the expectations of its...
June 06, 2016 by Tatiana Gabroussenko
In the days leading up to the recently completed Seventh Congress of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK), there was widespread...
May 19, 2016 by Dennis P. Halpin
In May 2016 North Korea is scheduled to have its Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea. In theory the Congress...
May 02, 2016 by Fyodor Tertitskiy
